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! style="border: 0px solid black; padding: 0px;" | '''Born''':
|Fereidoun M. Esfandiary<br>October 15, 1930<br>Brussels, Belgium
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! style="border: 0px solid black; padding: 0px; background: #efefef" |'''Died''':
|July 8, 2000 (aged 69)<br>New York City, New York, U.S.
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! style="border: 0px solid black; padding: 0px; " |'''Occupation''':
|Writer, philosopher, teacher, consultant
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! style="border: 0px solid black; padding: 0px;" |'''Nationality''':
|Iranian-American
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! style="border: 0px solid black; padding: 0px;"|'''Genre''':
|Science fiction, futurology
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! style="border: 0px solid black; padding: 0px; background: #efefef;" |'''Literary movement''':
|[[Transhumanism]]
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! style="border: 0px solid black; padding: 0px; background: #efefef;" |'''Notable works''':
|''Are you a Transhuman?''	
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'''FM 2030''' (born Fereidoun M. Esfandiary, Persian: فریدون اسفندیاری‎) was a Belgian-born American-Iranian futurist, philosopher and [[transhumanist]] born October 15, 1930 in Brussels. He was also an athlete, author, consultant and teacher. He became notable as a transhumanist with the book Are You a Transhuman?: Monitoring and Stimulating Your Personal Rate of Growth in a Rapidly Changing World, published in 1989.<ref>Are You a Transhuman?: Monitoring and Stimulating Your Personal Rate of Growth in a Rapidly Changing World (1989) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-446-38806-8 ISBN 0-446-38806-8]</ref><ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/11/us/futurist-known-as-fm-2030-is-dead-at-69.html New York Times obituary]</ref> Upon his death, the was the first person to be vitrified, rather than frozen, at the [[Alcor Life Extension Foundation]].<ref>[http://www.alcor.org/cryonics/cryonics2000-4.pdf A Tribute to FM-2030]</ref>

== Books ==

FM 2030 Authored a number of books including:

*[[Are You a Transhuman]]
*[[Up-Wingers: A Futurist Manifesto]]
*[[Optimism One]]
*[[Telespheres]]

== External Links ==

* {{Wikipedia|FM-2030}}
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/FM2030Videos/videos?disable_polymer=1 FM-2030 videos]
* ''What is the Future of Democracy?'' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-WB6dVkETI Part One] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21OMNVw2I3c Part Two] (recorded 1984)

[[Category:Transhumanists]]
[[Category:American transhumanists]]
[[Category:Iranian transhumanists]]

== References ==